- Lorelei Norvell. 1985.
- Typification of mushroom names (The Regular Column). Mushroom,
The Journal 3(4): 13-15.
- CONTENTS: (See also Projects: Agaric Taxonomy and Nomenclature)
- Lorelei Norvell. 1985.
- Every mushroom, it turns out, wasn't named by the Supreme
Being (The Regular Column). Mushroom, The Journal 3(3):
13-14.
- CONTENTS: An explanation of why the first name given to
a mushroom may not be the final one. "Occasionally [our hero]
finds that one type collection contains, in fact, two different
species. Or he may discover that non-type collections have
been mislabeled and are, in reality, "new" species that he
-- fortuitously -- must describe and name." (See also Projects:
Agaric Taxonomy and Nomenclature)
- -- Cited in Morel Tales: the Culture of Mushrooming (Fine 1998)
- Lorelei Norvell. 1985.
- Names Do Matter (The Regular Column). Mushroom, The Journal
3(2): 15-16.
- CONTENTS: An introduction to the twists and turns one encounters
in Latin nomenclature. "But back to the entertaining, nomenclatural
side of taxonomy. Some time a few centuries after people realized
our friend Sam could be better identified as Sam Smithson,
they began to sense that what worked for humans should work
for other natural things as well. In the 18th century
a fellow who came to be called Linnaeus devised the system
of binomial nomenclature." (See also Projects: Agaric Taxonomy
and Nomenclature)
- Lorelei Norvell. 1985.
- In which assistance is rendered to a zoo with a mushroom
eating bear (The Regular Column). Mushroom, The Journal
3(1): 22-23.
- CONTENTS: An encounter with a woozy European brown bear,
array of obscure mushrooms, and a zookeeper. "‘There
isn't any edibility information on Gymnopilus bellulus,
but some in that genus have a psychoactive effect on humans.
How is the bear doing, anyway?' ‘Oh, she's just fine.
She's not giving us any trouble at all.' Even in the flush
of success, I sensed something amiss. After all, identification
in and of itself seldom effects a miraculous cure…"
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